Gallican

[ gal-i-kuhn ]

adjective

1. Gallic; French.
2. Ecclesiastical.
   1. of or relating to the Roman Catholic Church in France.
   2. of or relating to a school or party of French Roman Catholics, before 1870, advocating the restriction of papal authority in favor of the authority of general councils, the bishops, and temporal rulers.

Gallican

/ ˈɡælɪkən /

adjective

1. of or relating to Gallicanism

noun

1. an upholder of Gallicanism

Word History and Origins

Origin of Gallican¹

1590–1600; < Latin Gallicānus belonging to Gallia, Gallican, equivalent to Gallic- Gallic + -ānus -an

Example Sentences

All those men were open infidels; and their attacks on religion, such as they saw it before them, roused the Gallican church.

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But if this were the state of the Anglican Church, the Gallican, though not better off, was acted on in a very different manner.

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He was instantly attacked for his Gallican panegyric, by a portion of the Royal Society.

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Lewis could not have taken his advice without surrendering his own main object, the restoration of the Gallican Church.

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To insular minds, whether Scottish or English, every deviation of the Gallican ritual from their own was a sore vexation.

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